The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress / Stephen Pemberton.

By: Pemberton, Stephen GregoryMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (398 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781421404424Subject(s): Hemophilia -- Complications | Hemophilia -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 616.1/572 LOC classification: RC642 | .P46 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : hemophilia as pathology of progress -- The emergence of the hemophilia concept -- The scientist, the bleeder, and the laboratory -- Vital factors in the making of a masculine world -- Normality within limits -- The hemophiliac's passport to freedom -- Autonomy and other imperatives of the health consumer -- The mismanagement of hemophilia and AIDS -- Conclusion : the governance of clinical progress in a global age.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-363) and index.

Introduction : hemophilia as pathology of progress -- The emergence of the hemophilia concept -- The scientist, the bleeder, and the laboratory -- Vital factors in the making of a masculine world -- Normality within limits -- The hemophiliac's passport to freedom -- Autonomy and other imperatives of the health consumer -- The mismanagement of hemophilia and AIDS -- Conclusion : the governance of clinical progress in a global age.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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